Ne Win on stamp for the first time

Bangladesh Post issued 100 stamps contained in 17 miniature sheets to commemorate the life of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the founding father of the country, on his birth centenary.  The sheets are contained in a commemorative stamp booklets.  Only 2000 booklets are produced.  Theses were scheduled to release on 17 Mar 2020, but actually released on 4 Apr 2021.

One of the stamp include the portrait of notorious Ne Win, was President of Myanmar, sitting with Sheikh Mujibur Rahman during one of the official meeting on 28 Apr 1974.  The denomination is Tk. 10.  It is 69th stamp out of 100.  Ne Win was never seen on world stamps before and this is the first time seeing this.  But his name appeared on some commemorative postmarks of Pakistan during his visits.  Together with this stamp, other five in sheet features USA President Gerald Ford, Senegal President Leopold Sedar Senghor, France Intellectual Andre Malroux, Saudi Arabia King Faisal,  U.A.E King Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan.

These stamps of are printed from The Security Printing Corporation (Bangladesh) Ltd., Gazipur, in four color offset printing with 12.5 perf while the size is 55 mm x 70 mm.

Postcard going in and out of Burma

In my previous post, I shared the U.S.A postcard redirected twice within Burma.  This post features more interesting card with 13 date stamps on it.  The card was posted from Bombay, India, addressed to Fort Stedman.  But still have to be forwarded as the addressee moved.

Front of the card

The incoming card from Bombay arrived at Rangoon mail exchange before traveling to Fort Stedman via Meiktila Road (Thazi).  The card was then readdressed to Lashio, via Maymyo.  As the addressee was also not in Lashio, the card was readdressed to Bangkok via Singapore.  For this trip, the card had to transit Maymyo again, Rangoon, and then Singapore before arrival to Bangkok.

 

Back of the card

When we look at the date stamps, the order of transits is as follows:  

BOMBAY 14 Sep 1894
RANGOON xx Sep 1894
MEIKTILA ROAD 2x Sep 1894
FORT STEDMAN 23 Sep 1894
FORT STEDMAN 26 Sep 1894
MAYMYO 30 Sep 1894
LASHIO 7 Oct 1894
LASHIO 8 Oct 1894
MAYMYO 16 Oct 1894
RANGOON xx Oct 1894
SINGAPORE 29 Oct 1894
SINGAPORE 29 Oct 1894
BANGKOK 6 Nov 1894

The mail route illustrated

The card traveled about two months before it was delivered to the intended person successfully.  We can know from the above order that there can be a direct mail route between FORT STEDMAN and MAYMYO.

Insein Post Office

Insein PO is located on Lanthit Road, near Insein park.  It is grade 1 post office and its postal code is 11011.  Please click the link for the location on the map.  It is just beside the Insein flyover.

Insein PO seen from the Lanthit Road

I visited Insein PO on 22 Feb 2018 and sent a registered mail to myself to collect the postmark and registration mark.

Registered mail from Insein PO. Paid 2500 Kyats for oversea registered mail.

 

There is no Registeration mark, but the box handstamp reading Insein in Burmese.  The registration number is manuscript-ed and separate date stamp was applied.  The letter arrived to Foreign Mail Exchange at Yangon on next day and applied duo color date stamp and trackable registration label was pasted before sending out to oversea country. 

Reply Card from USA, Redirected Twice in Burma

The following reply card was sent from USA to Burma, but interestingly it was redirected twice within Burma.  Both portions of the reply card were still attached.  The reply portion remains unused.  

The card is addressed to Mr S. G. Grantham of Land Mortgage Banks who is deliverable by RANGOON SECRETARIAT PO.  It was sent from New York on 2 Mar 1929, arrived to Rangoon Secretariat.  The PO attempted to deliver the card twice on 9 and 10 Apr 1929.  As the addressee was moved to Henzada, the card was forwarded to Circuit House, Henzada on 10 Apr 1929, by handwriting and striking out Secretariat, Rangoon.  The card arrived to HENZADA and attempted to deliver on 12 Apr 1929. 

Unfortunately, Mr S.G. Grantham was no longer in Henzada.  He moved to Maymyo and the card had to be redirected again to MAYMYO, Hillbrow.  Finally, the card was delivered to the addressee successfully on 14 Apr 1929.  But he did not respond by tearing off the reply portion and send back to U.S.A. Or may be he did by other means.